Evaluation of some date palm cultive ars grown under el baharia oasis, giza, egypt S.A.Rizk And, Omima, M. El Sayed.

الملخص EN

The present study was carried out two successive seasons, i.e.

2000 and 2001 on nine date palm cultivars grown at El Baharia Oasis, Giza, Egypt.

The evaluation parameters included different physical and chemical fruit properties at harvesting time of each cultivar.

The Sewy date palm considered to be the standard and local cultivar in such location, revealed that “Falik” cultivar was the best ones among the studied cultivars, where they exhibited the relatively greatest fruit weight, flesh weight, fruit volume and fruit diameter.

In addition, they showed the highest total soluble solids, sugars, and the lowest fibers content and phenols percentage.

On the other hand, “Soltani” cultivar fruits were the best for fruit length and non-reducing sugars content.

Conversely, “Hemily” cultivar fruits showed the lowest fruit weight, flesh weight, fruit volume, fruit length and fruit diameter.

However, one can recommend the “Falik” cultivar to be used as semi dry cv.

and can be consumed at rotab stage as soft cv.

in Giza and other Northern Governorates of Egypt.

Whereas, the “Soltani” cultivar is suitable as a dry date palm cultivar for the extension in Southern Egyptian Governorates specially Qena and Aswan.